LINTHICUM, MD USA (Press Release) - May 14, 2014 - The American Urological Association (AUA) today announced amendments to its 2013 Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) guideline. These amendments were made as part of the AUA’s update literature review (ULR) process, whereby an additional systematic review is conducted to maintain guideline currency with newly published relevant literature. New guideline statements added to the Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer guideline include:
- Clinicians should offer radium-223 to patients with symptomatic, metastatic CRPC (mCRPC) with good performance status and no prior docetaxel chemotherapy with symptomatic bone metastases and without known visceral disease (Standard; Evidence Level Grade B).
- Clinicians may offer radium-223 to patients with symptomatic mCRPC with poor performance status and no prior docetaxel chemotherapy with symptomatic bone metastases and without known visceral disease in select casts, specifically when the performance status is directly related to symptoms related to bone metastases (Expert Opinion).
- Clinicians should offer radium-223 to patients with good performance status who received prior docetaxel chemotherapy with symptomatic bone metastases and without known visceral disease (Standard; Evidence Level Grade B). The full CRPC guideline, including new amendments, is available here: http://www.auanet.org/education/guidelines/castration-resistant-prostate-cancer.cfm.
| Click HERE to listen to Michael S. Cookson, MD, MMHC* discuss the guideline amendments.
*Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Urology |
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Christine Frey, AUA
410-999-7091
American Urological Association (AUA)
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